Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-12-08
Sugar-Beets as a Drouth Crop.

A johnson county (Kan.) correspond
emit of the Country Gentleman writes;
While / was laying in my supply of seed
last spring, in order TO have my expert
ments extended as far as possible,
bought four pounds of sugar beet seed.
Now that we have passed perhaps the
worst drouth this country has seen for
many years, and the beets are so far
along as to insure a large yield, having
terminated and grown at a time when
blue grass and white clover were being
parched until the ground became almost
bare, the beets show that they have al
most, if not as much, endurance as any
on the list made up by the two gentle
men.
My early potatoes yielded not less than
1870 bushels TO the acre. The very early
planted corn will make forty bushels,
while the corn planted in the middle to
the 25th of April will scarcely make more
than fifteen to eighteen bushels TO the
acre.
have sown millet, and find that the
chinch bugs are the sole possessors of
that, having, on their way from the oat
field, passed right over the beets, and if
they harmed one, / have yet to find it
out.
OF course the beets would have been
larger had we had rains sooner. by Aug
ust 81 the most of them measured or G
inches in diameter, and if | understand
them, as | think l DO, when Jack Frost
comes to the front and your clover and
much of your dry season product will
| have to go hence the sugar beets will
then commence to straighten themselves
out for the best growing done III the
whole season. Should they stop now,
| they are worth more 20 the acre this year
than anything W. have so far raised, and
this winter my COWS will have their greer
feed while many will be patiently VIII
| ing for the coming of another spring Ter
| theirs.
have another experiment on the way
| / am trying to demonstrate how much an
acre of ground will produce If properly
cultivated. On tho 23d of February J
sowed on a one,acre lot oats and peas
OF this crop harvested on the 18th OF
June two tons Of green-cut aid well
matured feed. / Immediately plowec
and planted it in corn of an early yariet.
drilling il in for ieed, not very thick.
narrowed this once before coming up
and at tho second blowing that gave
IL. August Is, | sowed it in rye. ex
pect a good crop of feed from this tina
will be as valuable as the oats and peas.
The rye came up well and when thu
corn is removed i shall have fine past
ure for cows and calves during late fal
and winter. The rye may be left tC
mature, and it may be plowed under TO-
fertilizer in the sprirg-have not ye
determined as to this.
We have had two very poor crop years
taking the country over. l did the bes
1 could for corn and find very shor
crop. had good oats that yield hftl
or sixty bushels to the acre, and as state'
before, the potatoes are yey fine and
am satisfied with them. Almost every
thing have planted has done WELL bu
il required hard work. / did not allo'
the weeds to divide any Of the moiStur
with the crops where could help 1t.
Looking over the field at this date,
7 could 90 back would have planted ten
times as many sugar beets as have, en-
would leave out all corn planted afte
April /.